Homesick

"I come home to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.
I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are,
grand and beautiful."

- Henry David Thoreau

Split rail fence

There's something about a split rail fence that I think makes a house in the woods more homey.

Woodpile

"Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

-Athenaeus

Merry Christmas to my blogger friends!

Merry Christmas!

Privacy in Winter

"There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you ..... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself."

- Ruth Stout

Red, white and blue house

I drive by this red, white and blue house on Otsego Lake all the time. It's a simple and small house, but it just appeals to me with its brightly painted exterior.

*I'm am up at the log cabin with sporadic internet access. I will catch up with all of your blogs on Monday. Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you are all staying warm my friends!

Big Bradford Lake

"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."

-Wallace Stevens